Scerbo Pierluigi, Tisserand Benjamin, Delagrange Marine, Debare Héloise, Bensimon David, Ducos Bertrand
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure LPENS, ENS, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
Inovarion, Paris, France.
Elife. 2025 Mar 25;13:RP97650. doi: 10.7554/eLife.97650.
Why does a normal cell possibly harboring genetic mutations in oncogene or tumor suppressor genes becomes malignant and develops a tumor is a subject of intense debate. Various theories have been proposed but their experimental test has been hampered by the unpredictable and improbable malignant transformation of single cells. Here, using an optogenetic approach we permanently turn on an oncogene (KRASG12V) in a single cell of a zebrafish brain that, only in synergy with the transient co-activation of a reprogramming factor (VENTX/NANOG/OCT4), undergoes a deterministic malignant transition and robustly and reproducibly develops within 6 days into a full-blown tumor. The controlled way in which a single cell can thus be manipulated to give rise to cancer lends support to the 'ground state theory of cancer initiation' through 'short-range dispersal' of the first malignant cells preceding tumor growth.
为什么一个可能在癌基因或肿瘤抑制基因中携带基因突变的正常细胞会变成恶性并发展成肿瘤,这是一个激烈争论的话题。人们提出了各种理论,但由于单细胞不可预测且不太可能发生的恶性转化,对这些理论的实验验证受到了阻碍。在这里,我们使用光遗传学方法在斑马鱼大脑的单个细胞中永久激活一个癌基因(KRASG12V),该细胞只有在与重编程因子(VENTX/NANOG/OCT4)的瞬时共激活协同作用下,才会经历确定性的恶性转变,并在6天内强劲且可重复地发展成一个成熟的肿瘤。通过这种可控方式,单个细胞能够被操纵引发癌症,这为“癌症起始的基态理论”提供了支持,该理论认为肿瘤生长之前的第一批恶性细胞通过“短程扩散”形成肿瘤。